In East Africa, the Frankfurt urban planner spent almost 20 years building on behalf of the British Empire. Ernst May was a master of urban planning. Thousands of apartments were built in Frankfurt, then in the Soviet Union. His almost twenty years of work in Africa, on the other hand, is often perceived as a side note. Wrongly so. Can he be called a colonialist? One of the arrogant white guys, who came to settle and misused the land and its people? Yes and no.